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If You Were A Sailboat by Katie Melua, Music Video and Lyrics
This song is beautiful and so is Katie, just lovely !
Here’s the official video.
Katie Melua - If You Were A Sailboat Lyrics
If you were a cowboy I would trail you,
If you were a piece of wood I’d nail you to the floor.
If you were a sailboat I would sail you to the shore.
If you were a river I would swim you,
If you were a house I would live in you all my days.
If you were a preacher I’d begin to change my ways.
Sometimes I believe in fate,
But the chances we create,
Always seem to ring more true.
You took a chance on loving me,
I took a chance on loving you.
If I was in jail I know you’d spring me,
If I was a telephone you’d ring me all day long.
If I was in pain I know you’d sing me soothing songs.
Sometimes I believe in fate,
But the chances we create,
Always seem to ring more true.
You took a chance on loving me,
I took a chance on loving you.
If I was hungry you would feed me,
If I was in darkness you would lead me to the light.
If I was a book I know you’d read me every night.
If you were a cowboy I would trail you,
If you were a piece of wood I’d nail you to the floor.
If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore.
If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore.
If you were sailboat I would sail you to the shore.
October 11th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Can I point out something I noted? All the lines with “If you’re a…” are wrongly written in the present tense. They should be in the past as “if you were a…” Starting from the title, the if-clauses are in II conditional. Sorry for being this fussy. I’m too much used to correcting mistakes because I’m an English teacher. Anyhow, thanks for the lyrics indeed!
October 11th, 2007 at 11:07 am
I’ve corrected the lyrics Futhark, can I sit down now. Thank you :D
October 12th, 2007 at 9:21 am
You’ve passed the interview and got the highest mark for this! If you ever needed my learned advices again, I’d be pleased to help. Let me know. Bye admin
December 21st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
If she was a sailboat I would throw rocks at her in the vain hope of sending her to the bottom, keep this girl away from the big book of musical metaphors and for gods sake don’t encourage her, dreadful, just dreadful…….
December 27th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Oliver, do you event?
February 29th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Hay!!!I m Nevena Bozovic from Serbia…I see Katie in Rotherdam on JUNIOREUROVISIONSONGCONTEST…I M SINGER TOO…KATIE I LOVE YOUR SONGS…GREAT..LOVE SERBIA!!!!!!!!
February 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Hello Nevena Bozovic and thanks for dropping by.
Katie Melua is a great singer, I love all her songs ! :)
March 4th, 2008 at 6:12 am
you bunch of losers!!!
who in their right mind would deem… “if you were a piece of wood i would nail you to the floor”.. good lyrics.. as for the funking english teacher… ever heard of Wordsworth? … Er… How about Morrisey?.. er stil no?… Ian Curtis perhaps?? what about thast old chap.. er.. Shakespeare thats his name…
I pray that someone nailgun’s Melua’s dirge ridden musical career to her poxy sinking (rock filled [- nice touch fella]) sailboat..
enjoy the life crisis’ peeps
laters
April 24th, 2008 at 6:48 am
cast the stone as you reside in your house of glass free of sin…the woman is incredibly sophisticated in her eloquently simple message in this song and you have missed it if it has you bothered. The world, more than anything else, needs messages like this as it reminds us of what is most important which we have most forgotten — Love — as it is so difficult to find and even more difficult to not let slip right out of your hands. Keep going Katie — sharing your joy is accomplishing what you set out to do. Thank you for your lovely touch on this very fragile life we all live.
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
If you were a piece of wood I’d nail you to the floor, Katie. Some of us love her music and her voice, and she has the X-appeal too. ;)
November 16th, 2008 at 4:33 am
What a bunch of SNOBS some people just can’t take a sweet song and just enjoy it for the music it is .By the way you talentless SNOBS how many hit songs have you given us great unwashed lately ?? eh whats that … NONE EXACTLY .
January 31st, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Hey everyone, I’m Georgian as katie is and i’m proud of katie,she is extremly talanted,she is the pride of my country Georgia.we love and support you keti, wish you all the best.
February 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
katie i love you.xxx
May 26th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Go on sailing, dear,!
You seem to be following Leonard Cohen’s wake.
Love from a georgian grandfather.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Katie Melua, you keep singing, i love all your songs, my girlfriend is Georgian, she has gone back for a while, she lives in Tbilisi where some of Katies family live and to show i am georgianised, i live in Britain and my Georgian name is Dato, keep singing Katie, GO GEORGIA!
All the best, Dave (Dato)
October 10th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Hi guys!
Just keep on sailing Katie, you’re great!
when I hearde this song for the first time I unerstood the most words…yeeeeah:-)
but I taught that in stead of;verse
If I was in jail I know you’d spring me =goes (you’d free me),and
If I was in pain I know you’d sing me soothing songs =goes (you’d sing me to THIS song)…Somehow sounds better, or I don’t know a heck about english…the reason why I visited this site, by the way…what means spring and shooting songs? However, great song, Gosh I’m complicated…Good vibes from Croatia to all!
p.s.English teacher please don’t look at this post:-)
December 5th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I’m gonna watch her live in march, I’m from Portugal and I love her to death… she has the best lyrics as of now. My fav artist are brandi carlile, missy higgins and her. plus I love joshua radin, damien rice and joe purdy, as of bands the shins and the weepies.
I’m 20 and the only concert I’ve been to is the cranberries and now katie melua which I’m gonna see as I’ve already said in march.
for me these pleople stand for real music. (withouth meaning any disrespect, of course), but truly where is music leading to nowadays, peaple are listening to such craps it’s depressing.
please katie never stop singing, u are a goddess